District Six partly demolished, Cape Town, circa 1974-1975. Taken during the final stage of removal of 6000 families from District Six, for relocation to the Cape Flats and Atlantis, in terms of the Group Areas Act.

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A group of young boys and girls sit and eat ice-cream on the steps leading up to adjacent homes in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city. Their mothers appear in the background holding babies.

District Six partly demolished, Cape Town, circa 1974-1975. Taken during the final stage of removal of 6000 families from District Six, for relocation to the Cape Flats and Atlantis, in terms of the Group Areas Act.

The destruction of District Six was one of the worst insults inflicted upon the coloured people of the Cape by the National Party (NP). On a Sunday morning in 1974, three boys from a nearby shack strolled passed the demolition, sat on what used to be the pavement, and watched the destruction. Others also gathered, but no on said anything for a long time. When people have experienced too much pain, their senses become numb. The boys then got up and ran over the spaces of what used to be District Six

Nqutu District, Kwa-Zulu, 1973. "Homeland resettlement area", otherwise known as "the dumping grounds" for black people forcibly removed from metropolitan urban areas in terms of the apartheid Group Areas Act.

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A view of the mountain and a church is seen through an alleyway between two apartment buildings in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.

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Two children play in an open area in front of the neighbourhood of District Six, set against the mountain in Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.

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A man plays the guitar while children and adults listen at leisure and smile at the camera in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.

Demolition in progress, District Six, Cape Town, circa 1974-1975. Taken during the final stage of removal of 6000 families from District Six, for relocation to the Cape Flats and Atlantis, in terms of the Group Areas Act.